Friday, July 22, 2016
Trump's new problem with Christians: He won't accept Ted Cruz' endorsement, but gay man Peter Thiel's is just fine
Trump, quoted here:
"If he gives it, I will not accept it," Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, said at a Friday morning press conference in Cleveland.
Mostly female social conservatives saved the Republican platform from Paul Singer surrogate Annie Dickerson
From the story here:
But the [Tony] Perkins wing was met with vocal opposition from Annie Dickerson, an adviser to billionaire GOP donor Paul Singer, who is a proponent of same-sex marriage and other issues championed by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Dickerson fumed as her socially liberal proposals went down and the socially conservative measures she opposed sailed through the subcommittee. ...
The 16-member subcommittee, made up of 13 women and three men, rejected Dickerson’s request to remove language in the platform that “salutes” states like North Carolina for passing controversial bathroom laws that critics say discriminate against transgender people.
She protested language that said the party supports “traditional marriage and the families a husband and wife create,” arguing instead for a provision that said children should be “raised in a loving and stable home.”
And she argued against having language in the platform that opposes the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage.
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Senator Dan Coats of Indiana tears into Ted Cruz
Quoted here:
“I think what people saw last night is what we have seen in the Senate. No matter how conservative you are, you never can meet Ted’s standard. He only thinks of himself, he doesn’t think about party. He’s a wrecking ball. He’s the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I’ve ever seen – and you can quote me on that."
Cynical Rush Limbaugh ends show suggesting the assertion that Ted Cruz proved last night that he deserved to be called a liar all along is just a circulating talking point
Because several callers got through making the same point today.
It couldn't be, could it, that Ted Cruz is just a liar and proved it one last time last night and everybody following this just happened to agree because they are smart enough to figure it out for themselves.
Rush Limbaugh. The new face of sneering elitism.
How hot is it in Grand Rapids, Michigan so far in 2016?
Mean cooling degree days through July: 423.
Actual cooling degree days in 2016 through July 19: 432.
Charles Hurt calls Ted Cruz a "rude political has-been"
Here.
Cruz joins John Kasich and Jeb Bush in political oblivion. Laura Ingraham this morning called what we saw last night in Cruz' failure to endorse Trump "political suicide".
By contrast people like Scott Walker and Marco Rubio have swallowed hard and backed Trump, and therefore they will live to fight again another day.
But Ted is dead.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Ted Cruz tonight: One huge disappointment
I felt like I was listening to a Senate filibuster.
That guy will never be president.
Republicans demonstrated increased unity last night as delegates previously pledged to others voted for Donald Trump
Trump, who won 1543 delegates in the primary season, received 1725 votes from the floor as states like Michigan upped their ante from the 25 bound delegates for Trump to 51. Trump increased his support by almost 12%.
Similarly Pennsylvania which had 17 votes bound for Trump and 64 total committed cast 70 for him.
Both states passed on their votes in the roll call in order to allow the New York delegation to put their favored son over the top for the nomination, showing that Michigan and Pennsylvania have New York values, too.
Ted Cruz, who won 559 delegates in the primaries and caucuses, received 475 votes from the floor, 15% fewer than he had won.
Marco Rubio, who had won 165, received 114, 31% fewer.
John Kasich, who had won 161, received 120, 25% fewer.
Ben Carson received 7, Jeb Bush 3 (previously had 4) and Rand Paul 2 (previously had 1).
It appears that 26 votes of the 2472 total delegates were not cast at all (no shows? neverTrumpers? never allocated?). No votes were cast for Fiorina or Huckabee on the floor, each of whom had won one in the primaries.
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Monday, July 18, 2016
Republican Convention Day 1 Laugh of the Day, courtesy of Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA
"I'm from the great state of Illinois. The cool thing about Illinois is we have term limits. One term in office and one term in jail."
More about Charlie here.
Obama condones violence against police by broadcasting from abroad that cops need to admit they have a problem
A week ago, here, from Spain:
"[T]here’s data and evidence to back up the concerns that are being expressed by these [Black Lives Matter] protesters. And if police organizations and departments acknowledge that there’s a problem and there’s an issue, then that, too, is going to contribute to real solutions."
Kick 'em out of NATO: Coup in Turkey staged by Islamist Erdogan, had at the ready a prepared list of 6,000 people to arrest
Reported here:
Following a failed coup attempt on Saturday, Turkish authorities on Sunday rounded up nearly 3,000 suspected military plotters, ranging from top commanders to foot soldiers, and the same number of judges and prosecutors.
French PM Manuel Valls seems to think that dying at the hands of terrorists is living
Quoted here:
“We would like to tell the French people that we will never give in,” Mr. Valls said outside the Élysée Palace, in Paris. “We will not give in to the terrorist threat. The times have changed, and France is going to have to live with terrorism.”
Oh the horror: The French might actually get angry and do something, disturbing effetes everywhere
From the story here:
I wish I could say this was just hysterical exaggeration. But the evidence does not support complacency. Just down the road from me on the outskirts of Montpellier on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, there's long been a gun club where enthusiastic game hunters can polish their skills during the off-season. Unlike in Britain, it is perfectly legal for members of such clubs to own pistols and semi-automatic rifles.
In the last few months, since the wave of terrorism has intensified, the membership of the gun club has quadrupled, from 200 to 800 members. The new members are not all motivated by the love of shooting sports. Benoit, a local olive farmer who owns more than a dozen rifles, pistols and shotguns, as well as an AK-47 assault rifle, admitted to me this weekend something much darker.
"They're getting ready for a war," he said.
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Hypocrite Obama has tried to get around the law his entire presidency, today speaks up for it to make sure the history books trim his record
Quoted here:
"Attacks on police are an attack on all of us and the rule of law that makes society possible," Obama emphasized Sunday.
Saturday, July 16, 2016
Friday, July 15, 2016
Germany and France have suppressed the truth about the animalistic brutality of Islamist terrorists in recent incidents
Reported here, if you can stomach it.
Terrorist kills a bunch of fags in a gay nightclub, incompetent FBI finds no evidence he did it because they were gay
And there you have it. These people couldn't find their asses with both hands and a mirror.
Story here.
Meaning of a military coup in a NATO country: The country shouldn't be in NATO
Stories everywhere.
Try here.
Sounds like the military is actually in favor of being a secularized state instead of the late Islamicized state the current government is sympathetic toward.
In which case, OK, but that's not how it's done in NATO.
#Anti-Trump crashes and burns in the rules committee: Can anything good come out of Utah?
An ignominious moment for Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who suddenly developed a tin ear for politics. Or maybe he's never had an ear for politics?
Story here.
If only 36% finish their college degrees in four years, maybe 64% of those in college don't belong there
The New York Times reported here in 2014:
At most public universities, only 19 percent of full-time students earn a bachelor’s degree in four years, the report found. Even at state flagship universities — selective, research-intensive institutions — only 36 percent of full-time students complete their bachelor’s degree on time.
Meanwhile just 59% finish within six years.
Thursday, July 14, 2016
As usual The New York Times projects its own ludicrousness onto others
Here, where what's ludicrous is that The New York Times can't bring itself to say that the confessed devotee of Islamic State actually killed the 49 people, who somehow ended up dead:
“Right now, what we want to do is have a good conversation where we calm things down and we talk about solutions,” Speaker Paul Ryan explained in retreating from an issue — the ease with which terrorism suspects can buy guns — that Republicans had vowed to take up after a confessed devotee of the Islamic State last month opened fire in an Orlando nightclub, where 49 people were killed.
Mr. Ryan’s words deserve close inspection. They’re ludicrous.
CBS/NYT poll has Trump tied with Hilliary 40-40
Here:
Heading into the two parties' conventions, the race for President is a dead heat, a change from last month when Hillary Clinton led by six points. Forty percent of registered voters now say they will back Clinton (a dip of three points), while 40 percent will vote for Trump (a bump up of three points). A month ago, Clinton led Trump 43 to 37 percent.
Rasmussen has Trump at +7 over Hilliary
Here:
The latest Rasmussen Reports weekly White House Watch survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Trump with 44% support to Clinton’s 37%.
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
China's vice foreign minister Liu Zhenmin declares most of South China Sea "China's territory"
Reported here:
Mr Liu insisted that most of the South China Sea, including the Spratly and Paracel island chains, were China’s "inherent territory". He added: "We hope that other countries will not take this opportunity to threaten China and work with China to protect the peace and stability of the South China Sea, and not let it become the origin of a war.”
Jonathan Turley rips Justice Ruth "Buzzi" Ginsburg, agrees with Trump that her statements are unethical and undermine the Supreme Court
Here:
[Trump] is right. What she did is not just wrong ethically. It undermines the integrity of the Supreme Court. it's a very serious blow to that court.
The Devil's Dictionary definition of a republic aptly captures the growing absence of law and order in America
In a republic the foundation of public order is the ever lessening habit of submission inherited from ancestors who, being truly governed, submitted because they had to. There are as many kinds of republics as there are gradations between the despotism whence they came and the anarchy whither they lead.
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Are millions in America experiencing economic crisis?
If you lost your full-time middle class job in 2008 at the age of 51 and now by the age of 59 have only been able to find part-time work paying you one fifth of that, well yeah, it's a crisis.
Or maybe it's more like being slowly strangled to death because you saved enough before that to last this long, because you wouldn't still be alive to read this had you not. It's the real life version of "the continuing crisis" that used to be mocked in a monthly column at The American Spectator.
Hence our rage. Hence Trump.
Or maybe it's more like being slowly strangled to death because you saved enough before that to last this long, because you wouldn't still be alive to read this had you not. It's the real life version of "the continuing crisis" that used to be mocked in a monthly column at The American Spectator.
Hence our rage. Hence Trump.
But otherwise, no, everything's just fine, sweetie.
Monday, July 11, 2016
Andrea Leadsom withdraws in Britain, Theresa May to become Conservative Leader and PM by Wednesday
Cynical Brits torpedoed Leadsom by portraying her as someone who thought her traditional role as a mother gave her a leg up over her childless opponent.
Can't have that in queer-friendly England now can we?
Story here.
Gallup: When fooling half the people all the time is good enough
50% of Americans still say Obama deserves little or no blame for the country's CURRENT economic troubles. 64% still blame Bush outright or somewhat.
Gallup, here.
Sunday, July 10, 2016
It's hundreds, not thousands, of fringe bad actors organized by Black Lives Matter in major cities committing violence and calling for violent revolution
From the NBC story here:
Around 100 protesters were taken into custody in Saint Paul, while more than 100 people were arrested in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police in both cities said. ... In Saint Paul, protesters blocked Interstate 94 ... Authorities used smoke bombs when 200 protesters refused to leave the roadway just after midnight. ...
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, hundreds of protesters gathered ...
Several hundred protesters took to the streets of San Francisco, blocking several roads and ramps to get on and off the Bay Bridge. ...
In central California, several hundred protesters blocked several intersections as they marched against police brutality in central Fresno. ...
In Chicago, hundreds of protesters held demonstrations downtown Saturday, and a group attempted to disrupt the a city-sponsored food and music festival. ...
Hundreds of people also marched in West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale Saturday as part of the Black Lives Matter movement ....
A protest march was also held in Philadelphia. "Clearly this is REVOLUTION time. We know this," an organizer wrote on Facebook. Elsewhere in Pennsylvania, several hundred people broke off from Pittsburgh's 200th anniversary parade and marched to a courthouse to denounce the shootings of black men. ...
More than 150 people also gathered in downtown Newport, Rhode Island, in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The current very strong El Nino is now 15 months long, averaging 1.45 on the index, and looks about done
This El Nino looks about done, with the last running 3-month mean value coming to just 0.7 on the index. Anything below 0.5 next time will mean we are truly finished with it.
Five months after peak, the fall-off has come to almost 70% of peak value, a little less impressive than the fall-off of over 78% similarly measured for the 1997-98 episode.
The 1997-98 very strong El Nino was 13 months long and averaged 1.56 on the index.
The 1982-83 VSE was 15 months long and averaged 1.33.
The weather will be a changin'.
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Blacks commit homicides at a rate 8x higher than whites, but Hillary says it's whites who need to change
Hillary quoted here:
“I’m going to be talking to white people, we’re the ones who have to start listening to the legitimate cries coming from our African-American fellow citizens,” she said.
US Department of Justice here, reporting on the period 1980-2008:
The offending rate for blacks (34.4 per 100,000) was almost 8 times higher than the rate for whites (4.5 per 100,000).
Loretta Lynch would never say to the Tea Party what she said to her precious protesters: "Don't be discouraged"
Here:
[S]he urged peaceful protesters not to give up.
“I want you to know that your voice is important,” Lynch said Friday during a news conference at the Justice Department. “Do not be discouraged by those who would use your lawful actions as cover for their heinous violence. We will continue to safeguard your constitutional rights and to work with you in the difficult mission of building a better nation and a brighter future.”
Why term limits for political offices in Michigan is wrong-headed
In short because it's harder to hit a moving target. By the time the voters catch on, they're gone.
Hillary Clinton's seven perjuries before Congress: Clinton v Comey July 2016
Clinton: "I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email”.
Comey: “There was classified material emailed".
Clinton: “There was nothing marked classified on my emails, either sent or received”.
Comey: “There were a small number of portion markings on, I think, three of the documents. I don't think that our investigation established she was actually particularly sophisticated with respect to classified information and the levels and treatment. Even if information is not marked ‘classified’ in an email, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it".
Clinton: “It [her private e-mail set up] was allowed, but it was not a good choice”.
Comey: “You could be walked out [for that at the FBI] or, depending on the nature of the facts, you could be reprimanded".
Clinton: “I provided the department … with all of my work-related emails, all that I had”.
Clinton: “I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two”.
Clinton: "“The FBI has the server that was used during the tenure of my State Department service”.
Clinton: “There were no security breaches”.
Comey: "[W]e assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account".
Read the whole thing here at The Hill.
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John Kass declares himself a Clinton loather because being a Clinton hater is just irrational
Here:
Instead, I'm probably something of a Clinton-Loather. Hate is about the loss of control, like the barking of a dog or someone who shrieks into the wind or at a crowd. Loathing takes time and consideration. And I've had years of watching the Clintons lie and dissemble and tell partial truths and get away with it, and take advantage of the principles of honorable men such as James Comey.
Friday, July 8, 2016
Rush Limbaugh brought up Ann Coulter the other day, now appears to be reading her
Here:
RUSH: Say, folks, this one candidate, by the way, who practically every appearance praises the police -- there's one candidate in this presidential campaign, goes out of his way every appearance to acknowledge the police, to thank the police, to ask everybody to express their gratitude to the police. You know who that candidate is? That would be the Trumpster.
Milwaukee County Sheriff Clarke can't wait until Obama's out of office and Trump is president
Dittos, bro.
Here:
“I cannot wait until January 20, 2017 when President Obama leaves the White House for the last time,” Clarke said. “And I hope, I pray that Donald J. Trump becomes the next commander-in-chief because we need a president who is going to stand beside us and support us all across the country unambiguously by the way and we know we’re not going to get that out of Mrs. Bill Clinton. I think the saddest day for law enforcement will be if she were to become the president of the United States.”
Obama inflamed tensions before massacre of police in Dallas by proclaiming there's a conspiracy of racism among cops
Here, yesterday, commenting on the police shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota:
President Barack Obama said Thursday that all Americans should be troubled by recent police shootings, calling on the U.S. to "do better" amid rekindled nationwide debate about the use of force by police.
"These are not isolated incidents. They're symptomatic of a broader set of racial disparities that exist in our criminal justice system," Obama said.
Meanwhile in Chicago to date in 2016 police have shot and killed 4 of 309 total killed in shootings there.
Where's the presidential outrage over the broader set of disparities, huh?
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Ann Coulter: Trump's VP needs to give him impeachment insurance, that's all
Here:
Among the possibilities Trump ought to be considering are people like Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo (the latter two are up for re-election this year, but perhaps they can run for both offices simultaneously).
Yeah, I can't imagine a President Kobach, a President Brown, a President McCrory or a President Crapo, either.
Although the current president is pretty crappy.
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016
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